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>> guest: oh, yeah, which is -- should be pretty clear to you if you read mr, william safire's headlines. he's sort of famous for pushing to the limit the pun-ability. or -- i remember he wrote one not too long ago about paul tsongas. now it was about the womanizing question, the bad conduct -- no, the womanizing question something else and paul tsongas, and it was called wine, women and tsong -- t-s-o-n-g. and i almost called him and said, "all right. you win this year." c-span: what about your column, though, that goes out beyond the new york times? do you also write those headlines? >> guest: no, they do that themselves. but the times' ones -- what you see on the times op-ed page, we've done our headlines ourselves. c-span: how long has that been a tradition? >> guest: as long as i know of. i mean, i got to tell you, i was never so blindsided in my life as when i filed my first column, and after i had filed it, the copy editor called me and said, "well, what's your headline?" i said, "wait a minute. i don't write headlines. editors write headlines." but once i got used to it, i got to
>> guest: oh, yeah, which is -- should be pretty clear to you if you read mr, william safire's headlines. he's sort of famous for pushing to the limit the pun-ability. or -- i remember he wrote one not too long ago about paul tsongas. now it was about the womanizing question, the bad conduct -- no, the womanizing question something else and paul tsongas, and it was called wine, women and tsong -- t-s-o-n-g. and i almost called him and said, "all right. you win this year."...
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first, i want to say off the top , mr. copps is my hero. i watched him some time back when william powell, colin powell's son was sitting on the tord pretty much trying throw the fcc under the bus, as far as i was concerned. that observing all of this, me as a consumer, customer, i go to places like abc, link tv which i contribute to in order to get news -- bbc, link tv that i contribute to or al jazeera. i do this because i cannot get content that is informative in this country because it is owned by big business. here is mr. mcdowell tried to calmly thatt -- these companies have the right to come into the internet, which taxpayer subsidized, even though the military comes out with it, and they basically want to privatize this. control thel content now. another place to go to for news, of course, in the internet. now when i go to the internet i will have to be concern i would access tonal have independent content because these would have to be noted as not-competitive -- i would have access to independent content. who is going to prove it?
first, i want to say off the top , mr. copps is my hero. i watched him some time back when william powell, colin powell's son was sitting on the tord pretty much trying throw the fcc under the bus, as far as i was concerned. that observing all of this, me as a consumer, customer, i go to places like abc, link tv which i contribute to in order to get news -- bbc, link tv that i contribute to or al jazeera. i do this because i cannot get content that is informative in this country because it is...
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first of all i want to say off the top, mr. copps is my hero. i watched him sometime back when william powell, colin powells son was sitting on the board pretty much throwing the fcc, trying to do the fcc under the bus, as far as i was concerned. and i have to say that absorbing all this, me as a consumer, customer, i go to places like cbc, link tv which i contributed in order to get news that's not mandated or put out by big media, or al-jazeera. but i do this because i cannot get content that is informative in this country because it is owned by big business. and here is mr. mcdowell trying to say calmly at these companies have the right to come to the internet, which the taxpayers subsidy, although the military came up with it and now they want to privatize this. so they will control the content now. another place i go to for news of course is the internet. now when a cookie in it i have to be concerned that i won't have access to independent content either because he's saying something maybe we'll have to be either anti-confederate or blah,
first of all i want to say off the top, mr. copps is my hero. i watched him sometime back when william powell, colin powells son was sitting on the board pretty much throwing the fcc, trying to do the fcc under the bus, as far as i was concerned. and i have to say that absorbing all this, me as a consumer, customer, i go to places like cbc, link tv which i contributed in order to get news that's not mandated or put out by big media, or al-jazeera. but i do this because i cannot get content that...
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professor william green, an instructor in political science at south texas college e-mails in, mr. levin, why do you continue to claim james madison opposed no modification when he clearly stated in the document you referenced that thomas jefferson's idea of the rights of notification is the natural right. what is nullification? >> guest: this happens from time to time. there's a relatively small fringe effort to push an agenda, nullification and others too, even a little secession movement going on. i would ask the professor can he point to one place in madison's notes, the most comprehensive notes of the constitutional convention where nullification is mentioned? he can't. can the professor point to anywhere in the constitution where nullification is mentioned? he can't. when he and others try to construe the tenth amendment which leaves all powers not specifically conferred on the federal government to the states as a nullification amendment. it is no such thing. they act like liberals the way they twist and spin and reinterpreting what took place. he talks about jefferson. i ha
professor william green, an instructor in political science at south texas college e-mails in, mr. levin, why do you continue to claim james madison opposed no modification when he clearly stated in the document you referenced that thomas jefferson's idea of the rights of notification is the natural right. what is nullification? >> guest: this happens from time to time. there's a relatively small fringe effort to push an agenda, nullification and others too, even a little secession...
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now, mrs. kennedy was furious that the sellerrization rights had been sold for something like $700,000, and she said the writer and the publisher should not profit from this book. and the publisher felt they'd put in a lot, and manchester felt that he'd put in a lot, and they felt that they were entitled to that split. he wrote me and said at that time ask that book was -- and that book was written in 1978 -- $1.1 million in royalties had gone to the kennedy library. and i recently wrote to ask what the royalties were, and i couldn't get an answer. but that's, that's the price you pay for an authorized biography. and yet you couldn't write about that day without her opening all of those people to talk about it. >> host: a few minutes left with our guest, kitty kelley. larry in spokane, washington, hometown of kitty kelley, please, go ahead. >> caller: hey. quick question. do you have any outstanding memories of tom foley? there have just been two memorials, and it would be interesting to have y
now, mrs. kennedy was furious that the sellerrization rights had been sold for something like $700,000, and she said the writer and the publisher should not profit from this book. and the publisher felt they'd put in a lot, and manchester felt that he'd put in a lot, and they felt that they were entitled to that split. he wrote me and said at that time ask that book was -- and that book was written in 1978 -- $1.1 million in royalties had gone to the kennedy library. and i recently wrote to ask...